Reading Detective® A1

Reading Detective® A1 by Carrie Beckwith. paperback edition. ISBN: 0433599078974.

These highly-effective, literature-based thinking activities develop the analysis, synthesis, and vocabulary skills students need for exceptional reading comprehension. This 192-page activity book is especially effective at helping students in Grades 5-6 understand challenging critical reading concepts such as making inferences, drawing conclusions, determining cause and effect, using context clues to define vocabulary, and making predictions and generalizations. Students answer multiple-choice and short-response questions then provide sentence-level evidence for their answers. Each reproducible book contains goals, pretests and posttests, 50 activities, a glossary of terms, and answers with evidence and detailed explanations.